National University of Ireland Galway

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The National University of Ireland, Galway (NUIG) is the largest and oldest university based in the west of Ireland, employing in excess of 2,000 staff with a 17,000 strong student population. NUIG is a research-led University and has an overall ranking of 284th in the QS world university rankings for 2013 and 314th in the Times Higher Education world rankings for 2013/2014. Its research and teaching infrastructure is well established, of world calibre and strongly supported. In the past ten years alone, the University invested in excess of €400 million. In 2013, University income exceeded €220 million of which over €50 million was from externally funded research - in excess of €40 million from FP7 including successes in ERC, Marie Curie, Cooperation and Capacities programmes. NUIG has traditionally played a major role in marine research in Ireland due to its strategic location as a gateway to the North Atlantic and has a long history of involvement in European marine research. NUIG is unique in Ireland and much of Europe in that it has under the one academic roof, marine scientists, social scientists and science educationists (formal and informal) working on ocean related research.

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